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Malik Muhammad Jayasi

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"Who is more beautiful, I or Padmavati?, Queen Nagamati asks to her new parrot, and it gives a displeasing reply..."; an illustrated manuscript of Padmavat, c. 1750

Malik Muhammad Jayasi (Template:Lang-hi) (1477–1542) was an Indian poet who wrote in the Avadhi language.

He hailed from Jais, presently a city in the Rae Bareli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. After losing his sons in an accident, he abandoned his home life and turned to Sufi mysticism, which inspired many of his works. Though his tomb lies in a place 3 km north of Ram Nagar, near Amethi, where he died in 1542, today a "Jaisi Smarak" (Jaisi Memorial) can be found in the city of Jais.

Literary works

His most famous work is Padmavat (1540), a poem describing the story of the historic siege of Chittor by Alauddin Khilji in 1303 CE who attacked Chittor after hearing of the beauty of Queen Rani Padmini, the wife of king Rawal Ratan Singh.[1][2]

His other important works are Akhrawat and Akhiri Kalaam.

References

  1. ^ "The legend of Padmavati and how to read that immortal poem today".
  2. ^ "The epic poem Padmavat is fiction. To claim it as history would be the real tampering of history".


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